Washing-machine



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WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 3,586, dated May 17, 1844.

To all fui/wm, t may concern Be it known that I, IVILLIAM SoULE, ofStafford, in the county of Tolland and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new and useful improvement on the washer, a machine used forcleansing satinettes and woolen cloths, by which the liquor, o-rscouring suds used for cleansing said cloths can be saved and reused atpleasure till entirely exhausted of its cleansing properties; andI dohereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawing, making a part of this specification, in which- Figurel, is a perspective view.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a partition to thecommon washer, with orifices to allow the Icloth to pass freely throughto the press rollers, and valves so constructed as to retain the liquor`or scouring suds in the upper suds chamber formed by said partition, orto let it pass below at the pleasure of the operator. p

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

I construct my washer in any of the known forms and apply thereto pressrollers and other appendages of such washers, but in order to obviatethe great loss arising from wasting the suds used in scouring, when ithas served to cleanse but one batch of cloth, I have constructed apartition, consisting of a plain board extending laterally across thescouring box, and running from the center of the underside of the bottomroller downward and to the front side of the box at an angle of 45degrees, as being the angle best adapted to give direction to, andretain the suds if required in the upper chamber as shown at F, F, inthe accompanying drawing and which is used for the purpose of retainingthe suds, when desired in the upper part of the scouring box. In thispartition there are two valves consisting of a simple board lined withspongy leather or some soft substance, and fastened to the upper sideand near the lower edge of said partition by a hinge and so fitted as tocover orifices of 4 inches square as seen at H, H. These orices serve topermit the suds expressed from the cloth by the press rollers to escapethrough into the lower' suds chamber `when desired and in the upper edgeof this partition there are two orifices of such diameter as the clothmay demand to admit its free passage to the press rollers and to guideit to a proper place in its passage between them; these orifices aremarked I, I.

A, A, A, A, A, is a perspective view of the machine or washer.

B, B, B, B, B, are the press rollers between which the cloth passes, inthe operation of the washer, for the purpose of expressingA therefromthe suds and thus cleansing it from impurities; these rollers are 22inches in diameter and of such length as the size of the washer mayrequire. Motion is given tothe lower roller as seen by the pulleyD, inthe drawing, and the upper roller is driven by the friction of thelower, on its surface. The upper roller is pressed down upon the lowerby weights attached to its bearings as the operator may require. B, B,also are the supporting standards for the rollers. Then the washer is inoperation, the valves H, H, are opened by pulling the rods O, O, withthe hand, for the purpose of allowing the free passage of all the sudsexpressed from the cloth by the press rollers, through the partition tothe lower suds chamber, which consists of the bottom part o-f the boxwhere the suds is at first placed. WV hen it is desired to use the uppersuds chamber for the purpose of saving the scouring'liquor, o-r thefirst part of the rinsings of the cloth, the valves H, H, are closed bymeans of said rods marked O, O, and the two large cocks as seen at S, S,are opened to permit the suds thus retained in the upperl suds chamber'by the closing of the valves H, H, to flow freely through said cocksinto any vessel desired. These cocks are placed at each of the lowercorners of the upper suds chamber and are of any of the common forms.When the suds is thus saved clean water for rinsing the cloth isadmitted thro-ugh the orifices T, T, by any of the common contrivancesfor carrying water and permitting it to flow at pleasure. These orificesT, T, are upon the back side of the scouring box and on a level with thebottom of the lower press roller-the rinsing water is of course `throwninto the lower chamber uand is carried into the upper chamber by ik ACooks for drawing ofrp the suds Whe-n retained in the upper chamber, tothe Washer described and set forth in the specification.

WILLIAM SOULE. Witnesses:

BERG LATHROP, I-I. M. BOLTON.

